Creative Media Practice - Triptych

Creative Media Practice – Our first look into our mini projects was to look at and create and triptych, this is also known as split screen. As a group of 3 to 4 people we was to create a narrative together.  

After the lecture I decided to research more about triptych, I found that a triptych is a work of art that is sectioned into three sections, mostly panel paintings. Triptychs are a beautiful way to show art and display it to people.

 As a group of three, me and Natasha decided to work together to try and create our own triptych. We were to create a video triptych that showed a video within three split screens. We chose to focus on churches and that inside and outside feel to them. 

 

 

Before going out and capturing I decided to research some similar triptychs that were out there, I came across a lot of image based ones but not any video. I didn’t really question why. We decided we wanted to make ours visual than think of a story at focus on the main frames.

Cathedrals we looked at:

·         Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral

·         Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

These cathedrals gave use the opportunity to gather some beautiful images. We wanted our triptych to be seen as someone viewing the cathedral for themselves. So we had basically a afternoon to shoot as much as we could ready for editing the next day.

We began the next day by using after effects which didn’t work out as planned, we managed to get half way through before we realised a lot of the images weren’t working on the software. I made a big decision in the group to change to premier so that we at least had something to show at the end of the day. This gave me the opportunity to work with both software’s which was fun but I am more comfortable with premier.

 

 

I enjoyed using this style technique I had never heard about it before and think I gained a lot from researching about it before hand. I think that if we had a little more time we would have been able to make the triptych something completely different. I feel the way it was going on after effects looked good but we didn’t have time unfortunately to put that much effort into premier. I think next time that images need to be all the same size scale because this was definitely noticeable when it came to showing and was difficult to work around. I think the change in light in the cathedrals could have been worked on because they both has different contrasts that was shown clearly.

I think if I was to expand on this or do it again I would work on my story a lot more before going ahead and shooting! (You learn from your mistakes) I should have maybe suggested premier in the first place but it’s not a one man team. I would like to expand one day on this story because I think the images would make a beautiful triptych.